Read-alikes and related books

Books like Odyssey

What to read after Odyssey by Homer: 24 titles sharing themes of Ancient & Classical, Drama, European, and Poetry, chosen for mood and literary overlap.

Top related books to Odyssey

Strong read-alikes chosen for how closely they echo the themes and feel of Odyssey.

Aristophanes, 1 Acharnians, Peace, Celebrating Ladies, Wealth

Aristophanes

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Drama • European

The Burial at Thebes A Version of Sophocles’ Antigone

Seamus Heaney

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Drama • European

The Oresteian Trilogy

Aeschylus

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Drama • European

Trojan Women

Euripides

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Drama • European

The Sonnets

William Shakespeare

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Drama • European

Reading the Allegorical Intertext Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton

Judith H. Anderson

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Drama • European

Childe Harolds Pilgrimage

Lord George Gordon Byron

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Drama • European

Murder in the Cathedral

Thomas Stearns Eliot

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Drama • European

The Iliad

Homer

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Drama • Poetry

#10

Medea and Other Plays

Euripides

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Drama • European

#11

The Bustan of Saadi

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Drama • Poetry

#12

Antigone A New Adaptation of the Classic Greek Tragedy

Hollie McNish

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Drama • European

#13

Pygmalion.

George Bernard Shaw

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Drama • European

#14

… Prometheus Bound

Aeschylus

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Drama • Poetry

#15

Speaking Truth to Power The Legacy of the Young Cid

Matthew Bailey

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Drama • European

#16

Three Plays by Aristophanes Staging Women

Aristophanes

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Drama • European

#17

Burlesque Plays And Poems (1887)

Jeffrey Chaucer

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Drama • Poetry

#18

Don Carlos

Friedrich Schiller

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Drama • European

#19

Seneca The Tragedies

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Drama • European

#20

The Mob A Play in Four Acts

John Galsworthy

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Drama • European

#21

The Comedian as Critic Greek Old Comedy and Poetics

Matthew Wright

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Drama • Poetry

#22

Electra

Sophocles

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Drama • European

#23

The Seagull

Anton Chekhov

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Drama • European

#24

The Trojan Women A Comic

Anne Carson

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Drama • Poetry

If Odyssey by Homer is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by Ancient & Classical, Drama, European and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by Aristophanes, Seamus Heaney, Aeschylus, Euripides, and others.